diff --git a/mriqc/__about__.py b/mriqc/__about__.py
index d2ce972d9..2ab97fc64 100644
--- a/mriqc/__about__.py
+++ b/mriqc/__about__.py
@@ -20,19 +20,24 @@
 __credits__ = 'Oscar Esteban'
 __license__ = '3-clause BSD'
 __status__ = 'Prototype'
-__description__ = 'Automated Quality Control and visual reports for Quality Assesment of structural (T1w, T2w) and functional MRI of the brain'
-__longdesc__ = ("MRIQC provides a series of image processing workflows "
-                "to extract and compute a series of NR (no-reference), IQMs "
-                "(image quality metrics) to be used in QAPs (quality "
-                "assessment protocols) for MRI (magnetic "
-                "resonance imaging). This open-source neuroimaging data "
-                "processing tool is being developed as a part of the MRI "
-                "image analysis and reproducibility platform offered by the "
-                "CRN. This pipeline derives from, and is heavily influenced "
-                "by, the PCP Quality Assessment Protocol. This tool extracts "
-                "a series of IQMs from structural and functional MRI data. "
-                "It is also scheduled to add diffusion MRI to the target "
-                "imaging families.")
+__description__ = """\
+Automated Quality Control and visual reports for Quality Assesment of structural (T1w, T2w) \
+and functional MRI of the brain\
+"""
+__longdesc__ = """\
+MRIQC provides a series of image processing workflows \
+to extract and compute a series of NR (no-reference), IQMs \
+(image quality metrics) to be used in QAPs (quality \
+assessment protocols) for MRI (magnetic \
+resonance imaging). This open-source neuroimaging data \
+processing tool is being developed as a part of the MRI \
+image analysis and reproducibility platform offered by the \
+CRN. This pipeline derives from, and is heavily influenced \
+by, the PCP Quality Assessment Protocol. This tool extracts \
+a series of IQMs from structural and functional MRI data. \
+It is also scheduled to add diffusion MRI to the target \
+imaging families.\
+"""
 
 __url__ = 'http://mriqc.readthedocs.org/'
 __download__ = ('https://github.com/poldracklab/mriqc/archive/'
diff --git a/mriqc/__init__.py b/mriqc/__init__.py
index 4b27e4aa2..20807dfd7 100644
--- a/mriqc/__init__.py
+++ b/mriqc/__init__.py
@@ -43,4 +43,3 @@
     'ants_nthreads': 6,
     'float32': False
 }
-
diff --git a/mriqc/data/config.py b/mriqc/data/config.py
index 5524b8840..369c4dbf7 100644
--- a/mriqc/data/config.py
+++ b/mriqc/data/config.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class IndividualTemplate(Template):
     def __init__(self):
         super(IndividualTemplate, self).__init__(pkgrf('mriqc', 'data/reports/individual.html'))
 
+
 class GroupTemplate(Template):
     """Specific template for the individual report"""
 
diff --git a/mriqc/data/csv/raters_merge.py b/mriqc/data/csv/raters_merge.py
index 7df8bc3e6..979a1a891 100644
--- a/mriqc/data/csv/raters_merge.py
+++ b/mriqc/data/csv/raters_merge.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 # @Date:   2017-06-19 10:06:20
 import pandas as pd
 
+
 def get_parser():
     """Entry point"""
     from argparse import ArgumentParser
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a39a2756
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 99
+doctests = True
+exclude=*build/
+putty-ignore =
+    */__init__.py : +F401
+    docs/conf.py : +E265
+    /^\s*\.\. _.*?: http/ : +E501